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Author : Lucian Randall,Chris Welch
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007387243
The extraordinary story of Vivian Stanshall, lead singer of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, true British eccentric.
Author : Chris Welch,Lucian Randall
Publisher : S A F Pub Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0946719276
Viv Stanshall was one of pop music's true eccentrics. During the 60s he was the frontman of Britain's funniest and most surreal musical outfit - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. After they broke up, Stanshall's solo career included projects such as Rawlinson End, Tubular Bells (on which he was guest narrator), and songwriting with Steve Winwood. Stanshall's was a life of extremes. The highs were his renowned pranks with The Who's Keith Moon, whilst the lows saw him prone to schizophrenic depression, drug addiction and alcoholism which led to his being accused of attempting to murder his wife and his final sad demise in a house fire.
Author : Ki Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097592558X
Twenty three years ago Vivian Stanshall died in a fire, trapped in a north London flat. Drunk, he slept through his own death. Vivian was the ineffable, unflappable, elegant and irreverently funny frontman and songwriter for the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, a group of art students who'd created a band unlike any other band one could name - and still adored by thousands long after their short time in the sun was knocked on the head by Vivian himself. "We were art students. We were Dada. We were making fun of the worst excesses of rock 'n roll. One day I looked around to discover we'd become what we were parodying." Written by his wife of 18 years, an artist in her own right, this is a behind-the-scenes, beneath-the-sheets, under the bed tale of an actual genius - few who admired him would disagree. In many ways this is Vivian through his own private words gleaned from his personal journals. It's also full of up close and revealing portraits of legends: Keith Moon, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, John Peel, Joe Cocker, and so many more. But even more than all that, it's an ART BOOK: crammed full of Vivian's paintings, sketches, unpublished family photos, letters and poems. Vivian Stanshall was the last of the true Bohemians. This is also a tale of Dada, a mad sad glad voyage through life on a grand scale made by one of England's greatest treasures: the genius who was Vivian Stanshall.
Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007375752
Shawn Levy, author of ‘Rat Pack Confidential’ brings alive London in the swinging Sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world. This edition does not include illustrations.
Author : Vivian Stanshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9075342136
A musical comedy, or, as Vivian Stanshall would have it, an English Comic Opera in The Grand Tradition. Stanshall (1943-95) wrote it together with his wife, Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, for their Old Profanity Showboat in Bristol, where it was staged by the Crackpot Theatre Company in December 1985. This book documents these shows. It contains the script of the musical, the lyrics of the songs, photographs, artwork by Vivian Stanshall, and an introduction by Ki Longfellow-Stanshall. The comedy is set in a typically English end-of-the-pier theatre, where the once great music hall artiste Soliquisto and his company have descended for a week. Nine years earlier Soliquisto's greatest creation, a singing and dancing cat called Stinkfoot, disappeared mysteriously from the very same theatre. Soliquisto still mourns for the loss of this talented cat and is shrouded in memories of better days.
Author : Thomas E. Uharriet
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329748064
William Shepherd ("Billy Shears") took over The Beatles and the McCartney estate on 16 September 1966, going from "Billy Pepper" of Billy Pepper and the Pepper Pots, to The Beatles' new "Sgt. Pepper" of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Taking creative control of the band from John made William "the new boss," saving the band, but tormenting all involved. The Memoirs is the source of the "Paul is Dead" material reprinted in Billy's Back! and of the insights in Beatles Enlightenment, but also includes the darker aspects: Paulism, Satanism, and Biblical humor--calling The Beatles the four-headed 666 Beast. The Memoirs is the first fully encoded full-length book. As part of that encoding, it contains the world's largest acrostic, and is the world's premier of word-stacking. By reading The Memoirs, you will learn the secret meanings of their songs, and will recognize Paul and William's distinct physical differences, personality differences, and vast differences in musical skills.
Author : Lucian Randall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857200907
The Sunnewspaper asked if Chris Morris's July 2001 Brass Eye Special on paedophilia was 'the sickest TV ever?' It was certainly the most controversial, though his uncompromising style of comedy meant he was rarely far from trouble. Morris first came to national prominence at the heart of a group of virtually unknown comedians brought together by Armando Iannucci. This book follows them from their 1991 news satire On the Hour, which transferred from radio to television where it was reinvented as the equally successful The Day Today. It became impossible to watch bulletins without thinking of Morris's Paxmanesque anchor character chastising a reporter -- 'Peter! You've lost the news!' -- or authoritatively delivering nonsense headlines: 'Sacked chimney worker pumps boss full of mayonnaise.' Meanwhile co-star Steve Coogan created a lasting anti-hero in Alan Partridge, imbued with a horrible life all of his own. But Morris himself was always the most compelling character of all. Drawing on exclusive new interviews and original research, this book creates a compelling portrait of Morris from his earliest radio days and of the comedians and writers who frequently took on the industry they worked in, polarising opinion to such a degree that government ministers threatened to ban them entirely. THIS IS THE NEEEWWWWS!
Author : Lucian Randall,Chris Welch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015057010863
Vivian Stanshall started the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band in the early 1960s while at art school in London. Rehearsals were in the canteen and gigs held in pubs. The anarchic shows, with comedy, singing and 1920s dress took off, and after leaving college albums were made I'm the Urban Spaceman reached number 5 in 1968, and one track appeared in the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour. The group - major players were Neil Innes, Vivian, Rodney Slater and Roger Ruskin-Speare - appeared often on TV's Do Not Adjust Your Set, toured the US, and appeared at the Isle of Wight concert in 1969. But the following year the band broke up. What followed for Stanshall was not the successful solo career (that Neil Innes managed) but binges with Keith Moon and drinking and drug problems. Vivian continued to work: in film and radio, in adverts and albums; but two marriages failed, a houseboat sank, and Vivian died in a house fire in 1995.
Author : Phyllida Law
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008244750
‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word “actress”. If an MP or some other outstanding person plays fast and loose with an actress the world is unsurprised. She is certainly no better than she should be, and probably French...’
Author : Chris Welch,Geoff Nicholls
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879306580
Om trommeslageren John Bonham fra rockgruppen Led Zeppelin, med gennemgang af alle gruppens studieindspilninger.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Coda Books Ltd
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781908538604
Author : Richard Balls
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780957570061
More Than Just A Record Label! Told here for the first time, the complete story of the legendary Stiff Records
Author : Alan Clayson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computer network resources
ISBN : 1842403451
Esteemed music historian Alan Clayson traces every session, recording and live appearance made by each future member of Led Zeppelin and woven the results into a rich and insightful text containing a factually accurate 'family tree' of the future band and all their musical and professional colleagues. A fascinating view of the influences absorbed by the four musicians who would go on to form the greatest rock band of all time and a detailed insight into the workings of the industry at a time when it was producing some of the most famous groups in music history.
Author : Chris Welch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617802263
Written by Chris Welch former ÊMelody MakerÊ journalist and Cream confidante this newly-researched book is the first full account of rock's premiere three-man supergroup: guitarist Eric Clapton bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. From Cream's formation in 1966 to their breakup in 1968 the book analyzes the group's working methods and offers detailed descriptions of all their recordings. A special section explores the musical interactions of Clapton Bruce and Baker plus key songwriters Bruce and Pete Brown. With rare full-color photos throughout it also includes a complete discography studio sessionography and diary of live shows.
Author : Richard Balls
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857126986
Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author Richard Bells talked to over 50 of Dury's friends as well as Dury himself shortly before his death.Dury's extraordinary life was always a battle. As a rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom - until now. In this classic rock biography, the self-styled 'diamond geezer' stands revealed as a real diamond after all.This edition is updated to cover the release of the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll, and includes original interviews with Oscar-winning actor Andy Serkis who portrayed Dury in the film.
